We will need to win the ruck tomorrow night before anything else imo.
Melbournes line speed and wrestle, along with humble at dummy half could be a concern.

Who are the refs?

Their starting pack is still impressive, however their bench looks weak & green....the period before and after halftime could see the game won or lost....will be interesting to see if Sheens is consistent with the bench/front row

innsaneink wrote:We will need to win the ruck tomorrow night before anything else imo.
Melbournes line speed and wrestle, along with humble at dummy half could be a concern.

Who are the refs?

Their starting pack is still impressive, however their bench looks weak & green....the period before and after halftime could see the game won or lost....will be interesting to see if Sheens is consistent with the bench/front row

Hometown Hayne and Sutton Ink

Yes you are right Win the ruck and an 80% completion rate would be very good

with the big 3, their attack will suffer, but their defense wont particularly suffer. and when they say melbourne play a more structured game, i interpret it as their defense is very structured. their attack seems with a lot of intuition imo.

no team ever wins the ruck against melbourne imo, so for me, i think you just gotta make every opportunity (through penalties or a line break) in their 20 count.

innsaneink wrote:We will need to win the ruck tomorrow night before anything else imo.
Melbournes line speed and wrestle, along with humble at dummy half could be a concern.

Who are the refs?

Their starting pack is still impressive, however their bench looks weak & green....the period before and after halftime could see the game won or lost....will be interesting to see if Sheens is consistent with the bench/front row

Hometown Hayne and Sutton Ink

Yes you are right Win the ruck and an 80% completion rate would be very good

Oh God, I thought that read Hayne and Suttor for a moment then! Nearly had a heart attack, we would be no chance with those guys together. Whoever it is I just hope they referee both teams and not let Melbourne lay all over us for long periods. It happened in the Warriors game and I was fuming that they just kept letting them get away with it. Of course, when we were too slow to get off a tackled player they found the pea in the whistle very quickly!

with the big 3, their attack will suffer, but their defense wont particularly suffer. and when they say melbourne play a more structured game, i interpret it as their defense is very structured. their attack seems with a lot of intuition imo.

no team ever wins the ruck against melbourne imo, so for me, i think you just gotta make every opportunity (through penalties or a line break) in their 20 count.

cannot believe how much wrestling and slowing down the PTB they got away with. it is a bloody disgrace.

also, widdop, constantly tried to grab the arm of the defender to milk a penalty. once ref fell for it, twice they didnt. the whole team is full of dirty grub and cheats. hate them soo much, even more than the bulldogs now.

GNR4LIFE wrote:Iosefa made some ordinary decisions late. Putting in an average kick on the 4th, then for god knows what reason kicking it 20 m sideways into touch on full time when it was only the third tackle

I'd rather him kick it out on fulltime than lose it and give the opposition a chance to score.

He could have run it backwards over the dead ball line if he wanted to....wouldn't have bothered me.